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The article implies that somewhat, before AI the leetcode/brainteaser/behavioral interview process had somewhat acceptable results. The reality is that AI just
by artyom 11mo ago
The article implies that somewhat, before AI the leetcode/brainteaser/behavioral interview process had somewhat acceptable results.
The reality is that AI just blew up something that was a pile of garbage, and the result is exactly what you'd expect.
We all treat interviews in this industry as a human resources problem, when in reality is an engineering problem.
The people with the skills to assess technical competency are even more scarce than actual engineers (b/c they would be engineers with people skills for interviewing), and that kind of people is usually very very busy to be bothered with what's a (again, perceived) human resources problem.
Then the rest is just random HR personnel pretending that they know what they're talking about. AI just exposed (even more) how incompetent they are.
- bluGill 11mo agoThe results did filter out a few people who could not think. i reciently interviewed someone who was a senior engineer on the space shuttle, but managed a call center after that. Can this person still write code is a question we couldn't figure out and so had to pass. (We can't prove it but think we ended up with someone who outsourced the work to elsewhere - but at least that person could code if needed as proved by the interview)
- cudgy 11mo agoAgeism
- bluGill 11mo agoWe have interviewed and hired plenty of people even older (age is not something ever known/discussed and illegal to factor in - but it isn't hard to make a good guess anyway) senior engineer could be a project manager who never wrote code. i remember this because it is one of the faw 'no' I have had where it wasn't proved the person would be bad at the job. Normally the no hire signal is because the person would obviously be bad.
- itronitron 11mo agoWhy, after interviewing them, were you unable to figure out if this person can still code?
- bluGill 11mo agoBecause we didn't ask the right questions. We changed the process to require some questions. Which isn't perfect either, but we don't get months to interview someone so.
- stavros 11mo agoThe person was 23.
- CableNinja 11mo agoId hardly call this ageism. The person went from being part of engineering on a major space faring project to managing a callcenter. Thats like going back to zero on the career ladder, as far as engineering is concerned. I would have also been questioning whether or not their skills have collected dust, were still relevant, and most specifically why they went from engineering in aerospace to managing a callcenter, and why they want back into engineering again (probably hates callcenter).